Andrew Cash 
on October 3, 2012
Mr Speaker it is with great sadness that I rise today to inform the House of the death of Charles Roach. As my colleague from Scarborough-Rouge River pointed out yesterday, Charles was a great community leader in Toronto who fought for human rights, social justice and founded the annual Caribana festival. Charles passed away last [...]
A really powerful public protest took place by the Peace Tower in front of Parliament today. Like protests going on across the country today to underline the importance of the Interim Federal Health program that refugees to Canada have been able to access. This program is set to end on July 1. Some Canada Day [...]
on May 28, 2012
Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of the people of my riding of Davenport to present two petitions. The first petition has to do with my constituents being very concerned about the loss of public services in the riding, the post office being a very important one. There is [...]
on May 15, 2012
The Conservative Budget Implementation Act 2012 is a trojan horse bill sneaking in hundreds of pages of harmful new measures that: gut environmental protection threaten fisheries and other resources cut public pensions and job standards reduce democratic accountability undermine public health care The Conservatives rejected our NDP proposal to split this massive 425-page bill to [...]
on April 23, 2012
Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP): Mr. Speaker, human smugglers are not profiting from human smuggling here in Canada. They are profiting from it in the countries in which they ply their trade. We need to be clear on that, and I do not think the government is. However, I am honoured to be here in [...]
on September 20, 2011
Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP): Mr. Speaker, our party, as many of my colleagues have eloquently said, does not believe that Bill C-4, as it stands right now, would come close to dealing with the issue of human trafficking. We have many refugees living in my riding of Davenport. We have advocates on their behalf. [...]
Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the minister’s answer shows that he either does not get Toronto or he does not care. When he cut this funding, not only did he abandon new Canadians, but he took decades of on the ground knowledge and tossed it out the window. In my riding of Davenport, [...]